Never Be Afraid To Cry Because Those Tears Will Make You Stronger

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You know that a good, long session of weeping can often make you feel better, even if your circumstances have not changed one bit.

“You would think there's a natural limit to tears: only so much the body can give at one sitting before it runs dry.”

— Janice Galloway, amazon.com

Tagged: Crying, Tears, Bodies

“Something came out from my heart into my throat and then into my eyes.”

— Jean Rhys, amazon.com

Tagged: Crying, Hearts, Tears

“Crying defies scientific explanation. Tears are only meant to lubricate the eyes. There is no real reason for tear glands to overproduce tears at the behest of emotion.”

— Veronica Roth, amazon.com

Tagged: Crying, Science, Tears

“I never guessed I could cry so hard my face hurt.”

— Vernor Vinge, amazon.com

Tagged: Crying, hurt, Tears

“The hardest part of crying is when I can't stop.”

— Chuck Palahniuk, amazon.com

Tagged: Crying, Tears, Depression

“I'm not crying because of you; you're not worth it. I'm crying because my delusion of who you were was shattered by the truth of who you are.”

— Steve Maraboli, amazon.com

Tagged: Crying, Truth, Heartbreak

“Curiously, he felt too depressed to cry. Too hurt. It felt as if she'd taken the part of him that cried.”

— John Green, amazon.com

Tagged: Crying, depressed, Pain

“Let it all slide out. Unhappiness can't stick in a person's soul when it's slick with tears.”

— Shannon Hale, amazon.com

Tagged: Crying, Unhappiness, Tears

“When a girl cries, few things are more worthless than a boy.”

— Alexandra Bracken, amazon.com

Tagged: Crying, boys, Girls

“The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh.”

— Samuel Beckett, amazon.com

Tagged: Crying, Tears, Laughter

“My heart was in a perpetual state of sadness and the only relief I could find were in those cathartic cries.”

— Fisher Amelie, amazon.com

Tagged: Crying, Sadness, Relief

“It is so good to have friends who understand how there is a time for crying and a time for laughing, and that sometimes the two are very close together.”

— Lois Lowry, amazon.com

Tagged: Crying, Laughter, Friends

“Tears aren't for the people we've lost. They're for us. So we can remember, and celebrate, and miss them, and feel human.”

— C.J. Redwine, amazon.com

Tagged: Crying, Death, Mourning

“Acknowledge that some moments are just plain awful―desperate and gloomy and painful and miserable and nothing at all but anguish. No truthful, cheerful thought in the world will fix it. So let me cry awhile. Don't try to find a sunbeam where a shroud of darkness encloses me. Let me mourn. Then, afte…”

— Richelle E. Goodrich, amazon.com

Tagged: Crying, Mourning, Hope

“It's good to cry a bit, 'cause that helps us get through the rough parts. And the winter is though, there's no doubt. But we just hang on until spring when that ache will be all but swallowed up.”

— Shannon Hale, amazon.com

Tagged: Crying, Ache, Pain

“Tears release endorphins in the mind that help sooth and comfort. They cleanse the eyes and relieve stress, thereby lowering blood pressure and taking strain off of the heart. He created you with tears and nothing he created is bad. Those tears you are holding in are necessary, Emma. Let them fall,…”

— Quinn Loftis, amazon.com

Tagged: Crying, Tears, Stress

“No tears are wasted. It is deepest soul soothing.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita, amazon.com

Tagged: Crying, Souls, Tears

“Give yourself permission to cry.”

— Dan Groat, amazon.com

Tagged: Crying, Permission, Tears

“You don’t have to be awake to cry.”

— Jodi Picoult, amazon.com

Tagged: Crying, Awake, Asleep

“Eventually I confess to a friend some details about my weeping—its intensity, its frequency. She says (kindly) that she thinks we sometimes weep in front of a mirror not to inflame self-pity, but because we want to feel witnessed in our despair.”

— Maggie Nelson, amazon.com

Tagged: Crying, Mirrors, Self-Pity